Thersandrus compressus (Desbonne, 1867)

Carmona-Suárez, Carlos & Poupin, Joseph, 2016, Majoidea crabs from Guadeloupe Island, with a documented list of species for the Lesser Antilles (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea), Zoosystema 38 (3), pp. 353-387 : 378

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2016n3a5

publication LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3CB67803-6D84-4628-8EF5-D8281078FA16

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4579264

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EE0B58-2300-FF92-FC08-0808154BF878

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Felipe

scientific name

Thersandrus compressus
status

 

Thersandrus compressus View in CoL

(Desbonne in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867) ( Fig. 8M View FIG )

Sisyphus compressus Desbonne , in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 20 (type locality: Guadeloupe). — A. Milne-Edwards 1873-1880: 124 ( Guadeloupe).

Thersandrus compressus View in CoL – Rathbun 1925: 343 ( Guadeloupe).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Guadeloupe. KARUBENTHOS 2012, 1♀ juv. MNHN-IU-2013-5915 (lot JL522), st. GR 14, 27 m.

DIAGNOSIS. — Carapace depressed. Rostral horns small. Antennae and ambulatory legs fringed with long hair.

HABITAT. — A crab mimetic on algae ( Avrainvillea sp.). Collected 27 m, reported previously 3-6 m (2-3 fathoms).

DISTRIBUTION ( Rathbun, 1925). — Western Atlantic. Cuba. Lesser Antilles ICA (St Martin*, Guadeloupe, Martinique **).*St Martin from unpublished fieldwork (UF32558, 26.IV.2012 coll. & photo A. Anker/G. Paulay). ** Martinique from unpublished fieldwork (coll. R. Ferry, Y. Buske, det. J. Poupin XI.2015, BIOSPHERE (n°17) specimen at University of Fort de France).

REMARK

This crab is remarkably flat.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Majidae

Genus

Thersandrus

Loc

Thersandrus compressus

Carmona-Suárez, Carlos & Poupin, Joseph 2016
2016
Loc

Thersandrus compressus

RATHBUN M. J. 1925: 343
1925
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